Meter-registering device.



No. 633,567. Patented Sept. 26, I899.

J. M. BYRON.

METER REGISTERING DEVICE;

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UNITED STATES PATENT Ormcni JOHN M. BYRON, OF BOSTON, MASSACIIUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE ROGERS LIQUID METER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE AND POR'ILANI), MAINE.

METER-REGISTERlNG UEVlCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 683,567, dated September 26, 1899.

Application filed September 7,1898. Serial No. 690,414. llo model) 1' ZZ why n, it may concern: istering-iudexes ff, carried by the plates 1 Be it known that I, JOHN M. BYRON, of and 5 all in a well-known manner.

Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of In otherstyles of meters the necessary move- Massachusetts,haveinvented certain newand ment is imparted to the arm (Z from the move- 5 useful Improvements in Meter-Registering ments of the piston in a varietyof ways, but

Devices, of which the following, taken in 0011- all producing substantially the same result nection with. the accompanying drawings, is of imparting an intermittent vibratory movea specification. ment thereto, and thereby causing an inter- My invention relates to meter-registering mittentrotarymovementtobeimparted tothe to devices, and has for its object the registering ratchet-wheel Cand its shaft,whereby the sevof the work being done by a water or other mceral index-fingers of the register are moved ter at any desirable point at a distance thereat their proper relative speeds in a well-known from; and it consistsin certain novel features manner. of construction, arrangement, and combina In carrying out my invention I secure to 15 tion of parts, which will be readily underthe casing of the meter, but insulated therestood by reference to the description of the acfrom, the screw-cup h and the yielding eleccompanying drawings and to the claim heretrode t and set in the under side of the wheel to appended, and in which my invention is O the con tact pin or electrodej, which as said clearly pointed out. wheel is revolved comes in contact with the 20 Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings electrode 2' to close an electric circuit and illustrates my invention as applied to the passing it breaks the circuit.

Rogers water-meter shown and described in I) is a registering mechanism of any suit- Letters Patent No. 45S,739,issued to Richard able and well-known construction located at J. Rogers September 1, 1891. Fig. 2 is acenany desired distance from the meter, said reg- 25 tral longitudinal section through the cylinistering mechanism being shown only in rear der and its. casing in a horizontal plane, and elevation and is provided with the ratchet- Fig.3isaverticallongitudinalsection through wheel E on its initial or operating shaft 7t. the center of the casing and showing the os- I is a magnet connected by the conductcillating cylinder in elevation. ing-wire Z through the metal of the meter or 0 In the drawings, A is the oscillating cylinthe register thereon to the electrodej by the So der, provided with suitable trunnions A and wire on to one pole of the battery G or other A by which it is mounted in bearings in the source of electric energy, the other pole of fixed casing B, one head of which is removed said source of electric energy being connectin Fig. 1 in order to show the cylinder. ed to the screw cu ft by the conducting- 35 The cylinder A has formed thereon or sewire a. cured thereto at the center of its length and I1 is the armature of the magnet F, at on its upper side the forked lug a, which entached to the pivoted arm or lever I, to the gages the movable end of the arm I), firmly upper end of which is pivoted one end of the secured upon'the inner end of the vertical pawl-arm J, the opposite end of which en- 40 shaft 0, mounted in a suitable packed beargages the teeth of the ratchet-wheel E, as

ing in the casing B, substantially as in said shown. cited patent. The operation of my invention is as follows:

The upper end of the shaft 0 has firmly se- As the wheel 0 is rotated by the action therecured thereon the arm d, to the free end of on of the pawl c the pin comes in contact 45 which is pivoted the pawl e, which engages with the electrodet' and closes the electric the teeth of the ratchet-wheel O to impart circuit, which renders the electromagnet F thereto an intermittent rotary motion, movoperative, and the armature is attracted to ing it one tooth at each double oscillation of the poles of the magnet, thereby moving the the cylinder and through such motion operpawl J toward the rightand moving the 50 atingthe train of gearing and the several regratchet-wheel E about its axis at each more ment of the armature toward the magnet a distance equal to the length of a tooth of the ratchet-wheel E, which must be of such length that at each attraction of the armature the wheel E will move through one-tenth of a revolution, and the wheel E will make a complete revolution in the same time that the wheel 0 makes ten revolutions, and it therefore follows that if one revolution of the index-finger carried by the shaft on which the ratchet-wheel O is mounted indicates that one foot of liquid has passed through the meter one revolution of the index-finger carried by the shaft 7s, which carries the ratchet-wheel E, indicates that ten feet ofliquid have passed through the meter. A spring S is secured by one end to the arm I and by its other to some fixed object, as the upright U, and acts to retract the armature when the circuit is broken and cause the pawl J to engage another tooth of the ratchet-wheel E.

The register mounted directly upon the meter-casing may be used as shown, if desired, or it may be entirely dispensed with, only retaining the shaft 0, arms I) and (Z, and the ratchet-wheel O and pawl 6 without departing from my invention.

My invention is of great advantage in that the register may be located in the most convenient and desirable location in the building, Where it is easily accessible for examination at any time, while the meter, especially if a water-meter, is very liable to be placed in the basement or cellarin an inconvenient or not easily accessible position.

hat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The combination with a liquid-meter having an oscillating cylinder, of the oscillating shaft 0; the arms b and (Z secured on said shaft; the lug a projecting upward from said cylinder and engaging the arm Z); the pawl 0 carried by the arm d; the ratchet-wheel O mounted upon a vertical revoluble shaft, and provided with the pinj; a registering mechanism connected to and operated directly by the rotation of said shaft; a yielding elem trode in position to be contacted by said pin j, but insulated from the meter; a registering mechanism located at a distance from said meter; an electromagnet in proximity to said distant registering mechanism; an armature controlled by said magnet; an electric circuit connecting said magnet and meter; and means connected to said armature for imparting intermittent movements to said distant registering mechanism.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 27th day of August, A. D. 1898.

JOHN M. BYRON.

\Vitnesses:

N. O. LOMBARD, DANIEL W. HASKINS. 

